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Robert Cruickshank@robertcruickshank.bsky.social |
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Digital Strategy for California YIMBY, Vice Chair of Sierra Club Seattle. Personal account -- what you see here represents my own opinions, for better or worse.
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Michael Hobbes
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I like the coconut tree memes as much as everyone else but I do think we should all be on the same page about Harris's quote actually making sense when you realize she was telling a story about her mom and illustrating a point about education.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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bobby (frociaggine)
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life
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Robert Cruickshank
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We have a lot going on over here right now but one of the few remaining things that unite us in this bizarre joke of a country is contempt for British hierarchies. So congrats to Prime Minister Starmer and hope he fixes the NHS soon.
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Robert Cruickshank
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This feels like the Norway Debate in May 1940 but instead of tossing Chamberlain everyone is standing by him anyway. Harris isn’t Churchill, of course. But she’s pretty good. Make the switch and let’s go win this.
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Murshed Zaheed
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"I't’s unfair to ask Black women to be Jesus, but the reality is we live in a country where the closest thing to Jesus that we have is Black women. And so just go on and let us do it." - @profcrunk.bsky.social in a powerful give and take w/ @rtraister.bsky.social re it has to be #KamalaforPresident.
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Robert Cruickshank
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One of the worst aspects of the Democratic Party is the insistence on circling the wagons and attacking critics even when the party is on course to lose. Instead they need to be laser focused on winning. If the numbers show Biden is the better bet, keep him. If not, we go to Harris. Simple as that.
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Marisa Kabas
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can we not make this a rehash of the 2020 primary and instead see harris as the most viable option in an extremely shitty situation
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Greg Greene
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To repeat what I wrote a few days ago: if the undaunted sorriness of the Times this cycle doesn't convince at least a funder or two of the need to scale up a Democratic partisan press, nothing ever will.
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Greg Greene
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Pretty sure Dash Sulzberger’s lapses (of news judgment) and John Roberts’ lapses (of fidelity to his oath) concern me a great deal more than the disputable ones the Times keeps hyping.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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super interesting to me that Harris doesn’t just do better than Biden here but does better than most of the floated alternatives www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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Ned Resnikoff
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@jerusalem.bsky.social nails it on Grants Pass: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Robert Cruickshank
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Another couple of polls like we saw from CNN and this will be a done deal.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Just my gut, but I think today is the tipping point, and it's only a matter of time until Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for president this year. Which I strongly support and I am all in on Harris '24.
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Robert Cruickshank
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This poll is extremely convincing: • 13 point swing to Harris among independents • 8 point swing to Harris among POC • 6 point to Harris among women I strongly agreed with your column anyway but this poll is rock solid evidence that it's time to make the switch. Let Harris win.
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Lydia Polgreen
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*taps sign* www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Robert Cruickshank
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I think the poll shows a critical mass of key voters agrees with you (as do I)
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Robert Cruickshank
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Oh, and:
—Independents:
Trump leads Biden 44/34.
Harris leads Trump 43/40.
—People of color: Biden +21. Harris +29.
(via @taniel.bsky.social)
I think that just about clinches it. Time to swap out Biden for Harris.
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Robert Cruickshank
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The dam may finally be breaking. Hoping we have a new nominee (Kamala Harris) by the end of the month, perhaps sooner.
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Kevin
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I think a deeper problem is how primary voters try to guess who general election voters will like (and how the media feeds that thinking) rather than just picking the person who appeals to them. There’s sort of this assumption of “I get this candidate, but I’m smarter than other people”
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Robert Cruickshank
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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richard nixon, in hell, giving one last fuck you to the american republic
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Adam Serwer
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Nytimes politics desk is just overtly pro Trump at this point. bsky.app/profile/jaco...
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Robert Cruickshank
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Exactly this. Many of the people downplaying a second Trump term are leftists who are trying to find excuses to vote against Biden.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Robert Cruickshank
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Whether it’s Biden, Harris, or someone else, we gotta vote for the Democratic nominee in November because a second Trump term would be extremely bad.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Agreed. MAGA is going to believe they really can have a dictatorship and will not let go of that if they lose a close election this fall. Impunity for what they have always wanted to do (kill us all) is now within their grasp and it will embolden them.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Once a fascist authoritarian seizes power, it is extremely difficult to dislodge them. It took Spain and Portugal 40+ years! The best solution is to prevent them from taking power in the first place. This is why you're voting for Biden or Harris or whoever the Dem nominee is in November.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Jamison Foser
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For decades, Nixon's "If the president does it, it isn't illegal" line was widely and correctly understood to be dangerous nonsense incompatible with democracy and freedom. What the Supreme Court presupposes is: So what?
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Adam Bonin
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As Justice Sotomayor explains, today's Supreme Court decision on Trump immunity transforms America from a land of "no more Kings" to one of "no, more Kings."
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Robert Cruickshank
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Exactly. If Biden steps aside the only possible alternative is Harris, which is fine because she is good and will win.
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Robert Cruickshank
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I think we have a better shot winning with her than with him because I don’t think we can convince enough voters to choose Biden given that he clearly cannot serve the full four years, even against Trump.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Talking to some normie voters this weekend - Dems, indies, older, younger - and I don’t see how Biden can continue as the nominee. Nobody believes he can serve another 4 years. People wonder if he can make another 6 months. (He can.) It’s time to bring on Kamala Harris.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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If my daddy gifted me a large, national newspaper in my 30s even though I’d only ever worked in a real job for 3 years, I simply wouldn’t use it to try to destroy Black women, trans people, or American democracy in a fit of pique, but then again I am not New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger.
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Adam Serwer
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Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded
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Robert Cruickshank
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Biden did flameout in the primary. Twice! His 1988 run was an embarrassment. His 2008 run was weak. His 2020 run was seen as a joke until suddenly he won.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Harris can win. It’s no sure thing but it’s a risk I am willing to take and have been since the beginning of the year.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these numbers are basically vindication of one of my points in the NYT conversation, which is that whoever is the nominee inherits Biden’s position for the simple reason that they will be standard-bearers for the Biden administration.
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southpaw
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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.
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Robert Cruickshank
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So is keeping him. But we’ll see what happens. If the polls remain stable or Biden recovers from this then it’ll be fine. If Biden’s poll numbers drop then he’ll have to go.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Something like that for DC Dems and DNC members who see that this isn't working.
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Robert Cruickshank
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"Joe Biden spent his adult life in service of his country. He saw his first wife and 3 of his children die before their time. He stopped Trump, saved our democracy, and built a great economy. We are forever grateful for what he's done for us. Now he should step aside as his last gift to America."
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Robert Cruickshank
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Waiting for this debate is like waiting for them to launch the rocket and hoping it hits the asteroid that’s currently on a collision course with earth
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Robert Cruickshank
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Robert Cruickshank
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Oh thank god there’s one more can of sparkling rosé in the fridge. Now I can watch the debate.
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Robert Cruickshank
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Yes!
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Ben Harris
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“We locked up half our merchandise, understaff our stores and have unpredictable inventory. Inexplicably, people aren’t shopping in our stores.”
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Murshed Zaheed
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How long will the elite litigators from the Democratic/progressive establishment in DC will keep holding on to the delusion that they will keep getting fair shot from the Republican operatives in justice robes in this Robert’s #SCOTUS? Asking for lot of friends. @mjsdc.bsky.social
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